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CiteScore: 2.16ℹ
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Impact Factor: 2.113ℹImpact Factor:2016: 2.113The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)

5-Year Impact Factor: 2.260ℹFive-Year Impact Factor:2016: 2.260To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2016 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.932ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2016: 0.932SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.918ℹSCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2016: 0.918SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

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The Journal of Theoretical Biology is the leading forum for theoretical perspectives that give insight into biological processes. It covers a very wide range of topics and is of interest to biologists in many areas of research, including:

The Journal of Theoretical Biology is the leading forum for theoretical perspectives that give insight into biological processes. It covers a very wide range of topics and is of interest to biologists in many areas of research, including:

Please note that the biological significance of the problem being studied should be clearly stated.

Acceptable papers are those that bear significant importance on the biology being presented, and not on the mathematical analysis, per se. Papers that include some data will be considered, including those that contain comparative study, statistical data analysis, mathematical proof, computer simulations, experiments, field observations, or even philosophical arguments, which are all methods to support or reject theoretical ideas. However, there should be a concerted effort to make papers intelligible to biologists in the chosen field.

Highly speculative papers not based on current biological knowledge will not be accepted. Also not acceptable are papers in which only mathematics is utilized, or standard statistical methods are applied to existing genomic data, without new theoretical perspective or biologically novel insight.

Comment on theoretical issues or on papers published in the journal is welcomed in the form of Letters to the Editors.

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